¿Qué significa ser programador? (What's It Really Like to Be a Coder?)

This book teaches kids about what rainbows are and how water, sunlight, and a little bit of science creates them. The book is complete with labeled images when needed, simple text, and more facts. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Jumbo is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO. Translated by native Spanish speakers--and immersion school educators.

"Some things are so huge or so old that it's hard to wrap your mind around them. But what if we took these big, hard-to-imagine objects and events and compared them to things we can see, feel and touch? Instantly, we'd see our world in a whole new way." So begins this endlessly intriguing guide to better understanding all those really big ideas and numbers children come across on a regular basis. Author David J. Smith has found clever devices to scale down everything from time lines (the history of Earth compressed into one year), to quantities (all the wealth in the world divided into one...

El deseo de escribir, nace ante la necesidad humana de compartir ideas, sentimientos, historias, vivencias, etc. Si usted lector, ha pensado en iniciar el oficio de la escritura y tiene dudas al respecto, permítame decir, que esta guía le despejará la mayoría y probablemente le mostrara otras que no había contemplado. Sólo necesita cumplir un sencillo requisito y cito al escritor Robert Penn Warren: “Los verdaderos escritores son aquellos que quieren escribir, necesitan escribir, tienen que escribir”. Ahora nombraremos algunas de las reglas a seguir para la escritura y en esta...

In this poetic memoir, which won the Pura Belpré Author Award and was named a Walter Dean Myers Award Honoree, acclaimed author Margarita Engle tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War. En este poético libro de memorias—ganador del premio Pura Belpré de autor, finalista del premio de YALSA de no ficción y premio de honor Walter Dean Myers—la aclamada autora Margarita Engle recrea su infancia, que transcurrió a caballo entre dos culturas durante la Guerra Fría. Margarita is a girl from two worlds. Her heart lies in Cuba, her mother’s tropical island...